A Muslim teenager accused of lying to police about being racially abused by three drunk Trump supporters on a Manhattan train appeared in court with a shaved head - a punishment ordered by her Egyptian parents for bringing shame to their family.

Yasmin Seweid was arraigned at Manhattan's Criminal Court on Wednesday for falsely reporting an incident to police and obstructing governmental administration.

The 18-year-old claimed she was singled out by the hate-spewing Trump supporters on December 1 who branded her a 'terrorist' and tried to rip off her hijab when she boarded a subway on her way home from college.

She shared details of the ordeal on Facebook and won the support of other social media users.

Days after reporting the crime, Seweid went missing, sparking a missing person's appeal and another large police effort.

Sources say she made up the elaborate story to cover up for the fact she had been out drinking late with friends.

Her parents ordered her to shave her head as punishment for the scandal. They are also said to disapprove of her Christian boyfriend, The New York Daily News reports.

+13

+13

Yasmin Seweid, 18, was arrested by police on Wednesday for filing a false report after she claimed she was called a terrorist by Donald Trump supporters on a New York subway train. She is pictured right with a shaved head in court

Among those to support her in court on Wednesday was Seweid's older brother Abdoul who was himself arrested in 2012 for lying to police.

He claimed his friend had been 'assaulted by three unknown males', but was later charged among other teenagers with breaking into cars to steal their valuable contents near their home in New Hyde Park.

Seweid, who is a business major at New York's Baruch College, initially told police she was harassed by three men when she got on the No. 6 train at the 23rd Street station in Manhattan on December 1.

She claimed the drunken white men taunted her, telling her 'you don't belong here' and referred to her hijab as a 'rag.'

Seweid also reported that one of the men grabbed her bag, breaking the strap, and another tried to take off her hijab before she fled the train at Grand Central Station to try and flag down police.

She posted about the 'traumatizing' ordeal on Facebook and it quickly went viral.

'No matter how 'cultured' or 'Americanized' I am, these people don't see me as an American,' she wrote.

'It breaks my heart that so many individuals chose to be bystanders while watching me get harassed verbally and physically by these disgusting pigs.'

+13

Yasmin Seweid was arrested by police on Wednesday for filing a false report. She is pictured here in court

Muslim teen lied about being harassed by Trump supporters

Yasmin's new look was apparently the result of an order given by her parents. Her father Sayed accompanied her in court on Wednesday (above together)

Police originally investigated the case as an anti-Muslim bias incident and spent significant resources trying to track down those responsible.

Seweid even provided police with a description of the 'suspects', one of whom cops thought they spotted on video following her when she got off the subway at Grand Central Terminal, according to the New York Daily News.

'She had numerous opportunities to admit nothing happened and she kept sticking by her story', police said.

Authorities looked at surveillance footage but could not find evidence to corroborate Seweid's story.

Investigators had called in the Long Island teen on Wednesday to work on another sketch of her 'attackers' and confronted her with the inconsistencies, the New York Post reported.

Seweid's older brother Abdoul (above) was arrested in 2012 for filing a false police report claiming he had been assaulted. He later faced charges for breaking in to cars to steal their contents

Abdoul covered his sister's head with his jacket as they left the court on Wednesday afternoon

Seweid's older brother Abdoul (left) was later charged with stealing from cars. Her older sister Sara (right) is vocally anti-Trump

+13

Earlier this year Sara, Yasmin's sister, shared a photograph calling for Trump to be deported

Monitor this Page

Muslim Terrorism Count

Mission Overview

Most Western societies are based on Secular Democracy, which itself is based on the concept that the open marketplace of ideas leads to the optimum government. Whilst that model has been very successful, it has defects. The 4 Freedoms address 4 of the principal vulnerabilities, and gives corrections to them.

At the moment, one of the main actors exploiting these defects, is Islam, so this site pays particular attention to that threat.

Islam, operating at the micro and macro levels, is unstoppable by individuals, hence: "It takes a nation to protect the nation". There is not enough time to fight all its attacks, nor to read them nor even to record them. So the members of 4F try to curate a representative subset of these events.

We hope that free nations will wake up to stop the threat, and force the separation of (Islamic) Church and State. This will also allow moderate Muslims to escape from their totalitarian political system.

The 4 Freedoms

These 4 freedoms are designed to close 4 vulnerabilities in Secular Democracy, by making them SP or Self-Protecting (see Hobbes's first law of nature). But Democracy also requires - in addition to the standard divisions of Executive, Legislature & Judiciary - a fourth body, Protector of the Open Society (POS), to monitor all its vulnerabilities (see also Popper). 1. SP Freedom of SpeechAny speech is allowed - except that advocating the end of these freedoms2. SP Freedom of ElectionAny party is allowed - except one advocating the end of these freedoms3. SP Freedom from Voter ImportationImmigration is allowed -except where that changes the political demography (this is electoral fraud)4. SP Freedom from Debt
The Central Bank is allowed to create debt - except where that debt burden can pass across a generation (25 years).

An additional Freedom from Religion is deducible if the law is applied equally to everyone:

Religious and cultural activities are exempt from legal oversight except where they intrude into the public sphere (Res Publica)"